Combine twenty-six meaty new words, a sprinkling of fairy tale characters, one talented young artist, forty pages of gorgeous watercolours and an irresistably spunky dog and “voila!” an exciting new rendition of the Red Riding Hood theme. Bones optional.

What do Junior Rangers, scientific facts, children’s books and military service have in common?

On this edition of Just One More Book, Lee German talks about the origins of Sylvan Dell Publishing, what makes their books unique, and how his wife provided the motivation and his military service the skills to become a children’s book publisher.

For some people, the enjoyment of reading books isn’t enough. Even writing books doesn’t fill the void. For them, they want to spread the love of books and the connections that they can create.

On this edition of Just One More Book, Mark speaks with Margriet Ruurs who says that what she likes most is getting children excited about reading good books. She’s certainly done her share to move that along. Besides writing children’s books including My Librarian is a Camel, Ms. Ruurs is the force behind three literacy initiatives:

The only thing more titillating than a relatively good chicken sneakily undertaking pathetically mild misbehavior is an obnoxiously bad chicken brashly executing blatlantly bigtime misbehavior. This terrific book boasts both!

Baseball; it’s one of those magical sports that’s been written about in every genre of literature. And with Barry Bonds having broken Hank Aaron’s coveted home run record, it’s a hot topic of discussion these days.

So Long, Jackie Robinson is a fantastic young reader book by Nancy Russell that weaves an endearing story of a young English boy who moves to Montreal Quebec just in time to take a front row seat for Jackie Robinson’s rise to baseball superstardom beginning with the Montreal Royals. It’s a book that everyone can enjoy — even reluctant readers.

On this episode of Just One More Book, CBC journalist and author Nancy Russell tells us about her involvement in The Field of Broken Dreams project and her book So Long, Jackie Robinson.

Cheeky cartoon characters set in splendid sepia scenes join playful, matter-of-fact narration to solve two mysteries: Where did the Loch Ness Monster originate? and How on earth can my child detect a dash of nutmeg in a four gallon batch of rice pudding?